NHS of Staten Island

770 Castleton Avenue,

Staten Island, NY 10310

Phone: (718) 442-8080

Fax: (718) 442-8245

Office opens Mondays thru Fridays 9am-5pm except holidays.

Client Accessibility:

NHS has a parking lot located on the side of the building with two reserved spaces for clients with handicap. NHS office is wheel chair accessible. Clients with hearing impairment may call the New York City’s citizen 311 service. 311 is open 24 hours per day, seven days per week (for hearing-impaired clients, call 212-504-4115 via a touchtone device for the deaf TDD). NHS has bilingual and multilingual counselors to assist clients with language barriers. NHS also has a contract with a translation agency to provide translation services to clients speaking languages we do not have on staff.

Categories

Our mission is to create and maintain sustainable resilient homes and communities.

Vision

We envision a place where families are in homes and communities that are affordable, well-designed and maintained in a manner that supports the health, safety and economic stability of residents.

Guiding Principle

Working on the premise that long-term economic vitality, environmental health, and social cohesion are necessary and interdependent; and that the health of one determines the health of all; we take an integrated approach to developing sustainable communities where the needs of the present residents are met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own.

NHS of Staten Island provides programming that engages communities in Staten Island, for Social, Economic and Environmental transformation, development and resilience.

Social Development and Impact

Building social capital and equity refers to the norms and networks that enable people to act collectively for a better and more resilient community. NHS of Staten Island engages these networks by promoting Resident Leadership and increasing communities’ ladder of participation to be better positioned to assist in creating and maintaining clean, safe, healthy, livable, resilient and sustainable communities.

NHS of Staten Island’s efforts to create and maintain sustainable communities promote an Economic Development approach that engages a broad-based partnership of community, private, public and Third sector institutions for sustained concerted actions that promote the standard of living, economic mobility of residents and the community’s economic health. NHS of Staten Island provides several core programs that work toward this goal.

Environmental development is NHS’ community action programming that promotes a mode of living in which resource use aims to meet human needs while ensuring the sustainability of natural systems and the environment, so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come.

The chart below shows the demographics NHS of Staten Island has served in 2013 with regard to Area Midian Income. 81% of clients served was below 80% AMI while 19% was above 80% AMI. This chart is also reflective of what NHS SI has experienced in the past years as well.

Our partnership with the Office of Financial Empowerment allows us to have a financial counselor on staff three days a week on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Call 718-442-8080 to set up an appointment with the financial counselor Mrs. Natalia Joaquin.